<TITLE>11. Par 35-37</TITLE>L-35 Look. And the reason they refused it... They journeyed forty years longer in the wilderness because they refused it. What's kept all these things... I believe the coming of Christ... It's on my heart; I might as well say it. The coming of Christ is past due, past due. You say, "Preacher, what are you talking about?" The Bible. "As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the coming of the Son of man."
In the days of Noah, God was long suffering, not willing that any should perish. God is long suffering. His coming is past due. We'd have went into the millennium forty years ago if the people would've submitted themselves to God. But instead of that, they pulled back and organized and tightened down (even the Pentecostals and all the rest of them) under the old system, "We'll have a church, we'll join the church. And we'll see if we can't get more members than them." And one raised up in the bunch and said, "You know, I believe Jesus is not coming on a white horse; He's coming on a white cloud." He goes over here and makes him an organization, gets a few in it.
One say, "You know, I believe we ought to be baptized like this." And he makes him an organization.
Other one said, "I believe we ought to be baptized forward." He makes him an organization, the same old worldly system. But God in this last days is calling out of chaos, out of the midst of all of it. Man can't do it and never will do it. But Christ Himself shall come and shall call. We'll cross Jordan then. We'll cross Jordan.

L-36 Now, look at them. There they was, setting in the wilderness. Here was the evidence back. Why did he believe they could do it? Why, Moses said... I mean, God said to Moses there from the Pillar of Fire, He said, "Now, look. I give you Palestine. It's yours. I give it to your father Abraham. And I told him that you all would sojourn down there..."
And I want you to notice another thing, how many generations it took to bring it up. Fif--forty, fifty years is a generation, considered in the Bible. Four hundred years, that'll make eight generations.
Notice, then they... The first thing you know, they... Moses come up, and they backslid, went away another forty years. They come up to Palestine, another forty years: ten generations, meaning the ten tribes, and the half tribes, of course, to split time, to take it over. Perfectly, how they got all the words inspired, not one word but what's inspired in the Bible from Genesis to Revelations.

L-37 Then they come to Kadesh, where they could be judged. Now, the church come to Kadesh, where they could be judged. Then the churches all set and counseled here a few years ago, "Could we consider this baptism of the Holy Spirit? Could we consider the gifts of the Spirit returning to the church? I'll tell you what it would do; our document's drawed up like this. We cannot move to it."
The next one said, "We cannot receive it."
Others said, "We cannot receive it."
But there was some people said--went over into the promised land and come back with the evidence of it, that healing was right, that the Holy Ghost is right, that the powers of God is right. And the very promised land we're promised is right. Yes, sir.


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